Coin-bucket



(No Model.)

E. R. WHITNEY.

GOIN BUCKET. No. 371,868. Patented Oct. 18, 1887.

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Ihvirnn dramas ATENT @rrrca EDWIN RUTHVEN VHITNEY, OF MANCHESTER, NEWHAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD ELECTRIC COMPANY OF VERMONT, OF ST.JOHNS- BURY, VERMONT.

COIN-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent; No. 371,868, dated October18, 188*].

Application filed March 11, 1887. Serial No. 230,500. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN RU'rH'VnN Warr- NEY, of the city ofManchester, in the county of I-Iillsborough and State of New Hampshire,have invented a certain new and useful Improved CoinBucket; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

My invention has reference to the coinre- 1o ceptacles used inconnection with machines for weighing, strength-testing, and for otherpurposes, in which the introduction of a coin sets free either theoperating or indicating mechanism; and its object is to provide a coin-I5 bucket which shall allow only the special coin demanded for the useof the machine to operate it and to release the mechanism. In myinvention the coin-bucket is carried on a lever pivoted so that theother end of it rises when the bucket receives the coin; but in thepresent case the bucket is formed in two separate parts, the sides andfront of the bucket being only connected to the back by being pivotedtogether through ears at the top. The lower parts of the front and sidesand of the back of the bucket are held together by a spring, the sidesthemselves being so arranged as to hold the coin in the bucket until byits descent the projectionon one side of it is brought into contact withany fixed point in the machine, and the resistance of the spring therebyovercome, allowing the bottom to open and the coin to fall out, thelever then resuming its normal position. Should any coin of lessthickness than the one designated be dropped in, it will simply passthrough the bucket without acting upon it at all.

For full comprehension of my invention reference must be had to theannexed draw ings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figurel is a plan View of the bucket; Fig.

2, a side View of same, partly broken away,

5 to show the coin in position; and Fig. 3 a perspective view showingthe bucket opened.

Similar letter of reference indicatelike parts.

The bucket is formed, as shown, with back A, sides A. A, and front Amade in one with each other and connected by pins passing through theears a a and a a.

B is the spring by which the sides of the bucket are held against theback, and O the projection or dog, secured on front A, which, as thebucket is lowered by the weight of the coin dropped into it, comes incontact with any fixed point of the machine and opens the bottom of thebucket. D is the pivoted lever, to which the bucket is secured andthrough which the depression of the bucket operates to release theactuating mechanism.

Dis a knife-edge, forming a fulcrum secured at any suitable point to theunder side of D, and resting in asupport, I), carried from any part ofthe case or frame.

Any kind of a chute may be used to deliver the coin from the opening inthe case of the machine to the bucket, and it is immaterial whether itis dropped into a cash-receptacle or falls into another chute.

It will be obvious that a weight attached to and resting upon the frontA will serve the same purpose as the spring 13.

The introduction of too large a coin will be obviated by making theopening in the case the proper size.

Having thus described my invention, I beg to state that what I claim isas follows:

1. In a machine in which the mechanism is set free by the introductionof a coin, abucket for the reception of such coin carried on a pivotedlever and composed of a back plate secured to such lever, sides andfront made in one with each other and pivoted at top to the back, adevice for holding front and back together near their their lower edges,and means for opening bucket at bottom.

2. A. coin-bucket composed of a back secured to pivoted lever, front andsides pivoted to said back, a spring normally holding front 0 part andback together, and a dog secured to front part of bucket, allsubstantially as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

EDYVIN RUTIIVEN WHITNEY.

Witnesses:

F. G. Moonn, D, DEAN PATTERSONA

